Dr Paul Harrison - Researcher Profile

Biography

Paul Harrison has a PhD in Computer Science, and works for the Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences at Monash University as a Research Fellow, developing software for the analysis of high-throughput sequencing data.

Qualifications

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2006

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2006

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (ADV MATH & COMP) (HONOURS)

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1999

Publications

Journal Articles

Howden, B.P., McEvoy, C.R., Allen, D.L., Chua, K., Gao, W., Harrison, P.F., Bell, J., Coombs, G., Bennett-Wood, V., Porter, J.L., Robins-Browne, R.M., Davies, J.K., Seemann, T., Stinear, T.P., 2011, Evolution of multidrug resistance during Staphylococcus aureus infection involves mutation of the essential two component regulator walKR, Plos Pathogens [P], vol 7, issue 11 (Art. No: e1002359), Public Library of Science, USA, pp. 1-15.

Bannam, T.L., Yan, X., Harrison, P.F., Seemann, T., Keyburn, A.L., Stubenrauch, C., Weeramantri, L.H., Cheung, J.K., McClane, B.A., Boyce, J.D., Moore, R.J., Rood, J.I., 2011, Necrotic enteritis-derived Clostridium perfringens strain with three closely related independently conjugative toxin and antibiotic resistance plasmids, mBio [E], vol 2, issue 5 (Art. No: e00190), American Society for Microbiology, USA, pp. 1-9.

Chua, K., Seemann, T., Harrison, P.F., Monagle, S., Korman, T.M., Johnson, P.D.R., Coombs, G.W., Howden, B.O., Davies, J.K., Howden, B.P., Stinear, T.P., 2011, The dominant Australian community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone ST93-IV [2B] is highly virulent and genetically distinct, PLoS ONE [P], vol 6, issue 10 (Art. No: e25887), Public Library of Science, USA, pp. 1-10.

Ma, C., Harrison, P.F., Wang, L., Coppel, R.L., 2010, Automated estimation of parasitaemia of Plasmodium yoelii-infected mice by digital image analysis of Giemsa-stained thin blood smears, Malaria Journal [P], vol 9, issue Art. No: 348, BioMed Central Ltd, UK, pp. 1-9.

Moffatt, J.H., Harper, M., Harrison, P.F., Hale, J.D., Vinogradov, E., Seemann, T., Henry, R.M., Crane, B.A., St Michael, F., Cox, A.D., Adler, B., Nation, R.L., Li, J., Boyce, J.D., 2010, Colistin resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii is mediated by complete loss of lipopolysaccharide production, Antimicrobial Agents And Chemotherapy [P], vol 54, issue 12, American Society for Microbiology, USA, pp. 4971-4977.

Howden, B.P., Seemann, T., Harrison, P.F., McEvoy, C.R., Stanton, J.L., Rand, C., Mason, C.W., Jensen, S.O., Firth, N., Davies, J.K., Johnson, P.D., Stinear, T., 2010, Complete genome sequence of Staphylococcus aureus strain JKD6008, an ST239 clone of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with intermediate-level vancomycin resistance, Journal Of Bacteriology [P], vol 192, issue 21, American Society for Microbiology, USA, pp. 5848-5849.

Chua, K., Seemann, T., Harrison, P.F., Davies, J.K., Coutts, S.J., Chen, H., Haring, V., Moore, R., Howden, B.P., Stinear, T.P., 2010, Complete genome sequence of Staphylococcus aureus strain JKD6159, a unique Australian clone of ST93-IV community methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Journal Of Bacteriology [P], vol 192, issue 20, American Society for Microbiology, USA, pp. 5556-5557.

Steen, J.A., Steen, J.A., Harrison, P.F., Seemann, T., Wilkie, I.W., Harper, M., Adler, B., Boyce, J.D., 2010, Fis is essential for capsule production in Pasteurella multocida and regulates expression of other important virulence factors, Plos Pathogens [P], vol 6, issue 2, Public Library of Science, USA, pp. e1000750-1-e1000750-14.

Robinson, N.A., Piedrafita, D.M., Snibson, K., Harrison, P.F., Meeusen, E.N.T., 2010, Immune cell kinetics in the ovine abomasal mucosa following hyperimmunization and challenge with Haemonchus contortus, Veterinary Research [P], vol 41, issue 4 (37), EDP Sciences, France, pp. 1-10.

Gao, W., Chua, K., Davies, J.K., Newton, H.J., Seemann, T., Harrison, P.F., Holmes, N.E., Rhee, H., Hong, J., Hartland, E.L., Stinear, T.P., Howden, B.P., 2010, Two novel point mutations in clinical Staphylococcus aureus reduce linezolid susceptibility and switch on the stringent response to promote persistent infection, Plos Pathogens [P], vol 6, issue 6 (e1000944), Public Library of Science, USA, pp. 1-15.

Harrison, P.F., Spring, D.A., McKenzie, M.D., Mac Nally, R., 2008, Dynamic reserve design with the union-find algorithm, Ecological Modelling, vol 215, issue 4, Elsevier, The Netherlands, pp. 369-376.

Stinear, T.P., Seemann, T., Harrison, P.F., Jenkin, G.A., Davies, J.K., Johnson, P.D.R., Abdellah, Z., Arrowsmith, C., Chillingworth, T., Churcher, C., Clarke, K., Cronin, A., Davis, P., Goodhead, I., Holroyd, N., Jagels, K., Lord, A., Moule, S., Mungall, K., Norbertczak, H., Quail, M.A., Rabbinowitsch, E., Walker, D., White, B., Whitehead, S., Small, P.L.C., Brosch, R., Ramakrishnan, L., Fischbach, M.A., Parkhill, J., Cole, S.T., 2008, Insights from the complete genome sequence of Mycobacterium marinum on the evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Genome Research, vol 18, issue 5, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, USA, pp. 729-741.